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Learning path

Status: Available in ETLantic 0.41.0. One ordered ladder from first install to week-2 CI. First paste still lives on the docs home green path.

Week 1 — first success

Step Page Done when
0 Compare (optional) You know ETLantic is not dbt / Airflow / a dataframe engine
1 Installation python -m etlantic --version prints 0.41.0
2 Quickstart validate / run succeed; Ada/Grace in data/out.json; aha failure observed
3 First Pipeline Transform evolved; validate → plan → run still green
4 Engine selection One engine tutorial completed (or stay on local)

Short capability teaser (full matrix later): typed contracts, validate-before-write, deterministic plans, Local/Polars/Pandas/SQL/PySpark, Airflow compile, M6 observability/history pilot. Details: Capabilities.

Week 1 — deepen (pick one)

Goal Page
Builders / JSON authoring Programmatic authoring
SDK muscle memory (after Ada/Grace) SDK 10 minutes
Profiles and production trust Profiles hub
Portable transforms Portable transforms hub
Day-2 security ops Security howto

Week 2 — CI and pilot

Step Page Done when
1 Ops examples SARIF validate in CI; secrets via SecretRef
2 Production profiles Non-empty plugin_allowlist for production mode
3 CI integration Validate gate on PRs
4 Production readiness Residual risks accepted for your pilot

Reference after first success